Daily Search Forum Recap: February 26, 2013

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Matt Cutts: 301 Redirects Dilute PageRank Equally To Normal Links
Back about three years ago, we covered an interview between Google's Matt Cutts and Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting where we thought we learned that 301 Redirects Do Not Pass Full PageRank & Link Value.
The truth is, they do not pass full PageRank but nor does normal links...

Google's Search Box Going Away
It seems like in the current Chrome beta is not only SSL search enabled but also stripping out the search box from the Google search page.
Tom Johns posted a picture of this in action in a Google+ Community thread saying he is running a beta of Chrome and the search box is gone...

Try Searching Google For [Do A...]
Remember the Google easter egg for searching for do a barrel roll?
Well, it still works. The whole Google search results page will do a barrel roll right in front of you.

How Googlers Use Post-It Notes
Did you ever see Google post it note art before? Richard Hay from Google shared some on a window in the form of a Chrome logo and Android logo. I am sure there is plenty more around the various Goog